Ecstatic Wax

Herb Jeffries (name misspelled on the cover), Devil Is a Woman (Golden Tone, 1957) No, I'm pretty certain the so-called devil woma...

File under Comedy/Fantasy: Miserable Moe Bandy's 1979 vinyl turd,  It's a Cheating Situation . Sorry, Moe, but you're dream...

Summer is here, ladies and men! And Michael Henderson (known for his electric bass work with Miles Davis, among other more notable accompl...

You know you’re in trouble when your record label believes so much in your new album that they slap a Ford Pinto on the cover. Named for ...

I’ve always been fanatical about music, and that fanaticism goes way back —all the way to when I was a toddler and my parents would send ...

Oh, Danny Boy! Sharp-dressed in his wicker nest. Discovered another Wicker Man hiding on an old SD card. I snapped this pic last year...

Hmm … judging by the illustrations, this doesn’t look like any ordinary exercise album. Backdoor pantomiming, pelvic thrusting, and che...

Christian folk's Captain & Tennille take on the great orphan crisis of 1974. This 1974 album details one child’s harrowing and ...

In conceiving this terrible LP in the early 1970s, well-meaning Christians had tried their darnedest to re-brand the initialism of LSD i...

Long before they instigated the Good Friday massacre, during which they torched dozens of churches and committed innumerable heinous ac...

Since when is pinning down and forcing one’s self upon an incapacitated and presumably disinclined partner a “Serenade for Love”? A year a...

I bought this album for its cover. Look at it: It comes in colors, everywhere. It’s like a rainbow. In fact, it’s a bright psychedelic lov...

This record goes to show that you can stuff a schlock-slinging goober into a leather jacket and put him on a motorcycle and he’ll still ...

You’ve probably seen this album over the years. Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House is the cornerstone of the horror soundtrac...

If you’re a record collector, particularly one who haunts thrift stores, garage sales and swap meets seeking out the bizarre and obscure, yo...

Thirty one years ago (yesterday), Mount St. Helens blew its top. One year later, with volcanic ash still blanketing large swaths of the Paci...

I skipped Record Store Day this year. (Yes, I know it was three weeks ago—forgive me for being slow.) I just wasn’t in the mood to celebrat...

For 2010, I resolved to do my record shopping at the thrift store. It wasn’t so much a financial decision—though I saved a few bucks in doin...

I've got a bunch of new posts in the hopper for the new year. Sadly, this is not one of them. No, the new stuff just isn't quite th...

Ninety percent of all music I've purchased this year has come from thrift stores. It was one of my New Year's resolutions -- to a...